dishevelled

English

Alternative forms

• disheveled

Etymology

From earlier dishevely, from Old French deschevelé (modern French déchevelé and échevelé), from des- (“dis-”), + chevel (“hair”) (modern French cheveu). See there for more details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈʃɛvəld/, /dɪsˈʃɛvəld/

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Adjective

dishevelled (comparative more dishevelled, superlative most dishevelled)

a dishevelled man

1. (of a person) With the hair uncombed.

   Synonyms: messy, scraggly, tousled, unkempt, untidy

2. (by extension) Disorderly or untidy in appearance.

   Synonyms: untidy, slovenly

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

   • 2018 August 31, Peter Bradshaw, “The Other Side of the Wind review – lost Orson Welles epic is hurricane of anger and wit”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film, in which lightning flashes of wit and insight crackle periodically across a plane of tedium. I sometimes felt I was watching the 100-hour version.

Derived terms

• dishevelledly
• undishevelled

 

Translations

uncombed

• Bulgarian: разчорлен (bg) (razčorlen)
• Czech: neučesaný m, rozcuchaný m
• Finnish: epäsiisti (fi), sotkuinen (fi)
• French: ébouriffé (fr)
• Galician: espeluxado (gl)
• Georgian: დაუვარცხნელი (dauvarcxneli)
• German: ungekämmt (de), struppig (de), zerzaust (de)
• Hungarian: kócos (hu)
• Italian: spettinato (it)
• Maori: tīwanawana, hūtoi, hūtoitoi, pōtihitihi, poutihitihi, hīwanawana, puhirua, tūheihei, tūkirakira, tūtiratira, kōritorito
• Old English: tōsprǣdd, *uncembed,
• Portuguese: desgrenhado (pt), despenteado (pt)
• Russian: непричёсанный (ru) (nepričósannyj)
• Sicilian: a l'ariò, a l'ària, a l'àriu
• Spanish: chascón (es), despeinado (es), desgreñado (es)
• Swedish: okammad (sv)

untidy in appearance

• Bulgarian: размъкнат (bg) (razmǎknat)
• Czech: nedbalý m, zanedbaný (cs) m, neupravený m
• Finnish: epäsiisti (fi), sotkuinen (fi)
• Georgian: თმააბურძგნული (tmaaburʒgnuli), თმაგაბურძგნული (tmagaburʒgnuli), თავდაუვარცხნელი (tavdauvarcxneli), თავგაწეწილი (tavgac̣ec̣ili), თმაგაჩეჩილი (tmagačečili), თმაგაძეძილი (tmagaʒeʒili), აბურდული (aburduli), აჩეჩილი (ačečili), გაჩეჩილი (gačečili), აწეწილი (ac̣ec̣ili), აწეწილ-დაწეწილი (ac̣ec̣il-dac̣ec̣ili), აბურძგნული (aburʒgnuli), გაბურძგნული (gaburʒgnuli), დაუვარცხნელი (dauvarcxneli)
• German: unordentlich (de), ungepflegt (de) (rather negative), zerzaust (de) (hair), verwirrt (de) (hair)
• Greek: αχτένιστος (el) (achténistos)

  Ancient: ἀκτένιστος (akténistos)

• Hungarian: (hair) kócos (hu), (clothes) rendetlen (hu), zilált (hu)
• Irish: aimhréidh, ciafartach, foltscaoilte, gliobach
• Maori: puhirua, tūheihei, tūheihei, tīwanawana, hūtoi, hūtoitoi, uarapa, kōritorito
• Polish: (hair) rozczochrany (pl), (clothes) rozchełstany (pl)
• Portuguese: descabelado (pt), desgrenhado (pt)
• Russian: (hair) взъеро́шенный (ru) (vzʺjeróšennyj), (hair) нечёсаный (ru) (nečósanyj), всклоко́ченный (ru) (vsklokóčennyj)
• Sicilian: scunzatu m, scapiḍḍatu m
• Spanish: desaseado (es), descuidado (es), desordenado (es), desaliñado (es)
• Swedish: oborstad (sv)

Verb

dishevelled

1. simple past and past participle of dishevel